We are made ready by meeting those who are initiates, and then one will be in the appropriate affinity to open that first door, a first true step out.

Then comes the reality. Almost like after-surgery care, the initiator is around helping for a time, then even if this one leaves or not, the pulse of the charge changes. They may continue to work together in the spiritual community but the relationship is one of friendship and more equal.

The seeker, who has now become an initiate, must seek further instructions from the inner life, the generator of all deep inner experiences. The next steps come from inner teachers and usually within the lineage where the first affinity was shown. Stage by stage the initiate is taken into complexities, challenges, and formations that educate and cleanse until each level has been accomplished. There may be no levels for some, or there may be many. it is an infinite variation depending entirely on the soul and its purpose.

For the soul’s purpose on earth must be accomplished. And there also is the significant great purpose outside of time and earth’s limitations. This is entered through the inner initiations – a cosmic disclosure, growth and unfurling.

It is helpful and important to find language for these inner experiences of challenge and significance. It is the best use of the mind’s fine abilities to sense, decode, and create understanding. Symbols and other metaphysical constructs have been used down through the ages to pass along signposts for others along the way.

This incredible body of knowledge can only be found through inner study and is a rich outpouring of the wise. We all benefit from these studies, as the world is made whole when viewed from such a vast vantage point. Here in the renewal of love, harmony and beauty, we find irrefutable proof of the love of God, the eternal creation, and our place in it. We take learning from these non-human, meta-human, and enlightened sources, ones, and feed the world with impulses from that divine message. Whether understood or not, they exist as inexhaustible fountains from the source of all. We offer our reverence, homage and gratitude for the light of the divine truth.

All the memories, meaningful as they each may be, together form a greater whole, a magic multicoloured cloak over the pure soul’s light. It flows and trails out behind, regally, in exquisitely detailed shimmering. This cloak is worn by the soul only for a very little while. The lost parts of memory, even the “bad” stuff, is all there. Darkness reveals radiance, and it is all one expression of humanity.

I vision, I see all the souls convene, in circles. With their trains shimmering beneath them, they rise up in the centre of the sacred grove, and the lights become brighter and brighter as they join to reflect one another. They are like peacocks with the trains behind, all the splendour folded in, relaxed, flat. The joined souls fly a bit apart but remain in a circle. Then at an instant, the souls display. All together, their trains rise and fan out in stunning magnificence. The instant of the display is done all together at once. Sound, scent, light, colour and form all fill the sacred grove.

Into the centre of this circle extraordinaire descends a ball of active light. Brighter, even, than the light of these souls in full display. In the light of this unworldly sphere, the interdimensional aspects of the display are shown, are entered in with a loud sound and flourish of the fanning forms. These dissolve to become light only, as material aspects disappear. Each colour was a sound and a scent.

The souls, the heads of these magnificent beings, were drawn immediately into the brilliant sphere, nurtured and regenerated. They absorbed all the experiential information of the contents of the magnificent trains that unfolded to become the radiant display fans. They then shared this with one another, and with all others in a communion within the great sphere of light.

It was far more vast than I can say here. It appeared as a descending sphere but it was actually a vast expanding nebula or galaxy that appeared interdimensionally to absorb the souls and transmute the displays into starlight. The displays fade to evanescent memory until only a pinpoint of light is left. Now each pinpoint is a vast universe in miniature and all these are held in an inverted bowl of night where the souls are stars.

Great wings embrace the sphere. They are not from elsewhere but are in fact its own wings. The space through which it flies is its own space. It is empty forever.

The scale of these images and beings is infinitely variable depending on point of view. From miniature to unfathomable and all points in between, these forms, like all symbols, exist outside the limitation of dimension as we understand it.